Saturday 21st July 2018, 6: 00 PM – 9:00 PM @ St Ann’s Library, Cissbury Road, Tottenham, London N15 5PU This fascinating presentation by ‘Black History Studies‘ focuses on the hidden history of London and the contributions made by people of African and Caribbean descent to London in the areas of Literature, Politics, Music…

Saturday 16th June 2018, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM @ London South Bank University, 90 London Road, London SE1 6LN Racism remains entrenched in British society as an ongoing legacy of slavery. The session draws on the newly emergent British African Caribbean (BAC) perspective to offer theoretical insights on how racism has been institutionalised in…

Saturday 9th June 2018, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM @ London South Bank University, 90 London Road, Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6LN In the wake of the ‘Windrush’ scandal members of the African Caribbean community are invited to participate in this series of workshops which focuses on us re-imagining an alternative future for ourselves…

Saturday April 28th 2018, 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM @ Chestnuts Community Centre, St. Ann’s Road, Tottenham, London N15 5BN We are pleased to inform you that MEDUKATION will be hosting another A.C.E. MARKET on Saturday 28th April 2018. The day is designed for the expressed purpose of bringing together the Enterprises, Businesses, & Programmes in our community; especially…

Friday 6th April 2018, 09:45 am – 4:00 pm @ Stamford Street Lecture Theater, 127 Stamford Street, King’s College London, London SE1 9NQ This conference is for students in Years 11 – 13 from Black African and Caribbean backgrounds. The aim of the conference is to prepare you to make informed and ambitious decisions about…

The Greatness Exhibition is a two-part visual experience consisting of a series of portraits and a short documentary film exploring beauty, tradition and pride among individuals of African and Caribbean descent.

Big City stories is a compilation of film extracts dating from 1911 to 1995 from institutional and personal archives. Get a sense of how London’s Black population has been represented across the decades in mainstream film and TV and through the eyes of black filmmakers.

The strong black woman was created to counter images of historical and gendered stereotypes such as the ‘MAMMIE’, the ‘JEZEBEL’ and more recently the ‘SAPPHIRE’. Let’s look at each caricature in more detail: The ‘Mammie’ – was a post 1940’s figure, the asexual grandma who dedicated her life to fulfilling the needs of a white…